Extant the UK’s leading theatre company for visually impaired performers and audiences will be showcasing work by two of their young Associate Artist’s Helena Ascough and Jasmin Thien, with their solo shows ’No Future’ and ‘I Dream in Colour’ at the Sprint Festival, Camden People’s Theatre on Monday 27 March 2023 at 7.15pm.

Helena Ascough is a spoken word artist, actor and writer from the North East. Her play ‘No Future’ is a punk-inspired exploration of the trials and tribulations of being a visually impaired person within the British education system, both as a teacher and as a child.

Jasmin Thien is an actor and stand-up comic. Her play ‘I Dream in Colour’ explores memory, loss, and the intersection between disability and culture, drawn from Jasmin’s experiences growing up fighting eye cancer and eventually blindness as a Bruneian-born Chinese person.

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey caught up with Helena and Jasmin to firstly find out more about how the Extant Associate Artist Project has helped them both with developing their theatrical skills.

Toby then asked Helena and Jasmin to explain a bit more about the background to their two solo shows ’No Future’ and ‘I Dream of Colour’, where the idea for both shows came from and what they would like both visually impaired and sighted audiences to gain from seeing their shows. 

‘No Future’ by Helena Ascough and ‘I Dream in Colour’ by Jasmin Thien are on at the Camden People’s theatre as part of the Sprint Festival on Monday 27 March 2023 at 7.15pm and you can either call the Camden People’s Theatre Box Office on 020 7419 4841 to book your tickets or visit their website for more details-

https://cptheatre.co.uk/whatson/Extant-Presents-2023

There is also details about Helena’s and Jasmin’s solo shows on the Extant website where you will also find more information about the Associate artists project and all of Extant’s great work supporting blind and partially sighted theatre makers-

https://extant.org.uk/productions/extant-presents-no-future-i-dream-in-colour/

Image Shows: The Extant logo, stylised in purple capital letters with six dots to the left and the same formation as braille. Underneath is written www.extant.org.uk